Requires far more effort than slashies. Kinda turns the whole post up to 11.

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Slashes are used in code as a demarc for programmer comments. The copyright symbol is not.

/know your history

Interesting you should bring up history. The copyright has nothing to do with programmers comments. One day, long ago, slashies were disabled on Fark, they are of course, back. In that brief time I needed something to comfort me, which I found with the copyright sign. Its very easy to type, and it stuck. So, to put aside all your witty comments, if you had any idea of the history of that brief period, you'd find that it is really just a meaningless symbol that I type to symbolize the end of that particular comment.

Or, you are just being a snotty douche, and in that case, (insert bronx cheer), happy Halloween!

9. The person who got drunk and took off all the identifying parts of their costume. Now they're just wearing a brown leotard and novelty teeth and muttering about how much they love everyone. Very unsettling.

ABC News fails on so many counts....

Also:

Apparently it's a thing to dress up like Gallagher and Young Einstein and go as a couple.

9. The person who got drunk and took off all the identifying parts of their costume. Now they're just wearing a brown leotard and novelty teeth and muttering about how much they love everyone. Very unsettling.

ABC News fails on so many counts....

Also:

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Apparently it's a thing to dress up like Gallagher and Young Einstein and go as a couple.

I wanna dress up like Bennet from Commando. But I fear no one will know who he is, especially when I start spouting off lines. Your soldiers make me laugh, if Matrix were here he'd laugh too. My soldiers are patriots. Your soldiers are NOTHING, Matrix and I could kill em all in a blink of an eye.

I am the sit in the corner with the simplest costume on while my girlfriend gets all dressed up and goes overboard guy. I wore reindeer ears one year, and last year just a pirate hook that my girlfriend got me at the dollar store the day of Halloween. I am not pretentious, just Generation X don't give a fark about themed party, including Halloween. I enjoy working at the bar on Halloween though! Since everyone else always wants that night covered, usually make bank and I like looking at everyone's costumes that comes in and everyone is always beyond normal drunk.

frtmn7:I am the sit in the corner with the simplest costume on while my girlfriend gets all dressed up and goes overboard guy. I wore reindeer ears one year, and last year just a pirate hook that my girlfriend got me at the dollar store the day of Halloween. I am not pretentious, just Generation X don't give a fark about themed party, including Halloween. I enjoy working at the bar on Halloween though! Since everyone else always wants that night covered, usually make bank and I like looking at everyone's costumes that comes in and everyone is always beyond normal drunk.

For guys, Halloween parties are opportunities to see who can be the biggest goof. For women, they're a chance to capitalize on every sexual fetish in the book that they'd normally be obligated to tut-tut over. That's usually what makes them the most interesting parties of the year.

saddest thing from last 20 years of Halloween parties is meeting those who someone went to college with that are incredibly ignorant, obviously uneducated dunces. i sympathize for them as they should get their tuition refunded.

best thing is the ladies who like to dress it up and have a good time. mmm mmm good.

Rat:Interesting you should bring up history. The copyright has nothing to do with programmers comments. One day, long ago, slashies were disabled on Fark, they are of course, back. In that brief time I needed something to comfort me, which I found with the copyright sign. Its very easy to type, and it stuck. So, to put aside all your witty comments, if you had any idea of the history of that brief period, you'd find that it is really just a meaningless symbol that I type to symbolize the end of that particular comment.

Or, you are just being a snotty douche, and in that case, (insert bronx cheer), happy Halloween!

How long ago was that? I don't remember.

I'm always kind of a snotty douche, but one thing that really grinds my gears is when people see something in use and they only notice the aesthetic of it, and not the reason behind it.

Want a good example? Fixed-gear bikes. Now they're trendy because I-don't-know-why but it used to be that it was considered good practice to ride the first thousand or two miles of a year on a fixed gear bike because it enforces good form at varying cadences. Most people who ride "fixies" don't ride a thousand miles in a decade, let alone 20k+ in a year.

LeroyBourne:I wanna dress up like Bennet from Commando. But I fear no one will know who he is, especially when I start spouting off lines. Your soldiers make me laugh, if Matrix were here he'd laugh too. My soldiers are patriots. Your soldiers are NOTHING, Matrix and I could kill em all in a blink of an eye.

A couple of years ago, I was trolling the Goodwill for costume components with a friend, and found blue sweatpants and yellow flip flops. I added a white, sleeveless men's undershirt (commonly known as a "wifebeater") and a faux gold medallion on a chain. I spoke in a gruff voice all night and made ignorant comments about how horny I was and how I knew all the ladies wanted me, occasionally berating an invisible giant talking milkshake and carton of french fries.

/Sexy Carl didn't quite have the right ring to it.//Hot Carl sounded much better.

I was at a Halloween party back in 2001 and two of the guys there were each dressed up as one of the twin towers. Throughout the night they would fall over onto each other in unison. Many laughs were had.

9. The person who got drunk and took off all the identifying parts of their costume. Now they're just wearing a brown leotard and novelty teeth and muttering about how much they love everyone. Very unsettling.

ABC News fails on so many counts....

Also:

[i.imgur.com image 300x225]

Apparently it's a thing to dress up like Gallagher and Young Einstein and go as a couple.

Hm. What if you just wore a white t-shirt with a QR code on it so people had to scan it to see your costume? Or even better, that would link to a site with hundreds of different images, so every person who scanned you would see something different?

The method actor is usually the most fun. How can you not get into character? What would be lame is if somebody is dressed as Hulk Hogan, and doesn't impersonate him. Worse yet, never once uses the word "brother". I expect to hear that guy become hulkamania.

After the mid-80s I became cinematically deficient. Are they worth watching?

Sure they are, but there are probably bigger gems you've missed.

General rule of thumb: If something was shoved down your throat via commercials and other advertisements as a giant Hollywood blockbuster, it's not necessarily any good, but it might be. Don't go by this.

But if a movie is beloved by millions, chances are you're going to like it too. Everyone likes to think they are a special snowflake sometimes, but when it comes to something like Lord of the Rings or The Dark Knight the bottom line is everyone else liked it so you're probably going to like it too, so just freakin watch it already :)

8 Jewels of Snark from a Stocky Harpy Named Winona? Is The Frisky staffed by off-duty Jezebel writers trying to make a funny? Did anyone follow the links and see the "Seven Female Serial Killers Who Were Totally Justified" article followed by the "Male Convicts Who are Totally HAWWT" article? Nothing incongruous there.

LeroyBourne:I wanna dress up like Bennet from Commando. But I fear no one will know who he is, especially when I start spouting off lines. Your soldiers make me laugh, if Matrix were here he'd laugh too. My soldiers are patriots. Your soldiers are NOTHING, Matrix and I could kill em all in a blink of an eye.

I watched that movie not too long ago, and I remember thinking, "Bennet looks like he belongs in a leather bar spanking some guy's ass with a riding crop instead of trying to kill Arnold." Still, I would totally recognize the costume if I saw it at a party, and I would think it was awesome. Although, it is a bit close to the terminator costume from the first movie.